Happy New Years To You...

As the waning hours of the final busy work day of 2008 fall into the past and the evening of celebration looms ahead, I wanted to take a second and wish you a very Happy New Year.

I sincerely hope that the new year, 2009, is a happy, safe, healthy and prosperous one for you. The sins of the past fall off of us all like cobwebs in the attic and everything ahead of us is Opportunity.

I hope you find new experiences, new pleasures, new tastes, new joys in the new year. I hope that you meet the changes that you undertake, either voluntarily or otherwise, in 2009, with resilience, flexibility, strength and grace.

Let me close out this entry with a quote that someone just forwarded me in an email. I couldn't agree with it more...

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Have a Happy New Year, All of you Lovely Goddamn People!

Cheers,
Mr.B



PS. If you're out and about tonight and are looking to raise a glass with me, you'll find me at The Town Hall Pub tonight. After considering the many lovely party invitations, I think I'm going to spend the evening in my pub of choice, looking as sharp as I can manage, surrounded by friends and strangers, and slowly pickling my liver in vodka and cranberry juice. I have no plans to meet anyone there. I have no idea where I will go after that. I enter the evening devoid of plans, armed with a sharp suit, a flask of black cherry vodka and a few twenties. Ready to embrace whatever adventure comes my way. Oh... and I plan to kiss every pretty girl within arms reach, when the clock strikes twelve. On that you can depend...